Food for Life

by Jung, L. Shannon

• ISBN13: 9780800636425
• ISBN10: 0800636422
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

Food for Life draws on L. Shannon Jung's gifts as theologian, ethicist, pastor, and eater extraordinaire. In this deeply thoughtful but very lively book, he encourages us to see our humdrum habits of eating and drinking as a spiritual practice that can renew and transform us and our world. In a fascinating sequence that takes us from the personal to the global, Jung establishes the religious meaning of eating and shows how it dictates a healthy order of eating. He exposes Christians' complicity in the face of widespread eating disorders we experience personally, culturally, and globally, and he argues that these disorders can be reversed through faith, Christian practices, attention to habitual activities like cooking and gardening, the church's ministry, and transforming our cultural policies about food.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Part One God'S Purposes for Eating
Hungry for More	3	(14)
A Cornucopia of Eating Experiences	3	(2)
Forgetting Food, Forgetting God	5	(1)
A Worldview without Joy	6	(2)
An Alternative Worldview	8	(4)
A Range of Hungers	12	(1)
Hunger and Desire	13	(4)
God's Intention for Food	17	(15)
What Makes Eating Good?	18	(2)
The Old Testament	20	(4)
The New Testament	24	(8)
Food and the Christian Experience	32	(25)
Why Consider Experience?	34	(1)
Developing a ``Working Theology''	35	(1)
Getting Food on the Theological Table	36	(3)
Theological Models	39	(4)
Toward a Theology of Eating	43	(14)
Part Two Eating and Food System Disorders
God and Eating Disorders	57	(18)
Positive and Negative Hunger	59	(1)
Types of Eating Disorders	60	(8)
Eating Disorders and the Doctrine of Sin	68	(5)
Desire for God	73	(2)
Global Food Disorder	75	(20)
The Interconnection of Sinfulness	76	(2)
Hunger---The Extreme Disorder	78	(1)
Globalization	79	(3)
Domestic (U.S.) Disorder	82	(3)
Impacts of the Corporate Food System	85	(3)
Facing Complicity	88	(7)
Part Three Eating for Life
Redeeming Our Lives	95	(21)
Good Eating	95	(2)
Trapped in Our Humanity	97	(1)
Caught between Systems	97	(3)
The Way Out: Awareness, Confession, and Transformation	100	(16)
A New Vision for the Church	116	(17)
Community Power	119	(4)
Food as a Communal Expression of Grace	123	(1)
The Visionary Church	124	(5)
Food and Public Ministry	129	(4)
Notes	133	(14)
Selected Bibliography	147	(6)
Appendix 1: Video Resources	153	(4)
Appendix 2: Educational Resources	157	(6)
Name and Subject Index	163